Be with / Forrest Gander ; with photographs by Michael Flomen.

Poems. Selections

First edition.

9780811226059 (paperback)
0811226050 (paperback)

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2018]

English

Text in English and Spanish.

92 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

PS3557.A47 A6 2018

811/.54

"Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section--a moving transcription of Gander's efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer's--rise from the page like hymns, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and, as one critic noted, 'the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane'" -- Provided by publisher.

"First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP1408)" -- Verso title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-92).

Pulitzer Prize, 2019.

New Directions paperbook ; 1408.

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